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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned...
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Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and...
5) Term limits
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Mitch Rapp novel volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman Michael O'Rourke is the only person who has a clue as to what is going on when three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed as an initial strike in what promises to be an all-out attack on the American government.
6) Becoming
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts...
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Camel Club novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The Camel Club, a quartet of eccentrics dedicated to finding out what's really going on in America's government, becomes embroiled in an intriguing and dangerous mystery when the assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House is linked to the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare book room.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket out of small town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As rumors and accusations about her death fly around Capitol Hill, Cameron's low profile makes him the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, showed Americans how optimism, an adventurous spirit, and a call to service can help change the world. Their arrival in the spotlight came under the worst of circumstances. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, Gabby was the victim of an assassination attempt that left six people dead and thirteen wounded. Gabby was shot in the head; doctors called...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1410L
Language
English
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"During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft." "Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued in this handsome hard-cover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well...
13) Barack Obama
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book describes the life and political career of Barack Obama, who serves as a senator from Illinois and who has been besieged by people urging him onward and upward ever since his keynote address at the Democratic Convention in 2004.
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives and political careers of eleven women who have served in the Congress: Jeannette Rankin, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Barbara Mikulski, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, and Carol Moseley Braun.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Hillary Clinton, discussing her childhood in Illinois, her college and law school years, her life as First Lady, her time as a New York State senator, and her achievements as Secretary of State.
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